Paired excercises at a writing workshop held in conjunction with the Angel Bride installation...
   
 
Jill Miller and Helen Fenton
   
  The dress like a wave breaking towards me.
I don’t want to share this place.
            Don’t touch.
A ceremony to free the spirit. What would free her?
            Leave her alone.
Let’s clap to show we believe in fairies,
or take wings ourselves
            Who pays the ferryman a penny
            to slip over the border into another land?
What do I do for the dead?
            her voice will continue to live in the wood
            long after her wings melt into the soil
Like candles and words
            She will monitor the stragglers who pick at the silk
            and steal the jewels from her wings
Buried in the deep sweet earth
            Hurl the sparkling crown into the centre of the lake
Mourning for someone we don’t know, like a story in the news
We are mourning the withering of enthusiasm
the forgetting of how to fly, and walk on water.
   
   
  Jill Miller & Helen Fenton July 2003
   
   
 
 
 
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